Thayer School News
Hanover, N. H.
Your correspondent returned to a thawing Hanover after a Christmas vacation spent in the comparative balminess of New Jersey, where ten below was considered cold, to hear of days without end in Hanover at temperatures varying according to various recorders from thirty-five to sixty degrees Fahrenheit below zero.
As this letter goes to print Professor Garran departs for Boston, New York, and Washington, ostensibly to attend meetings of Thayer School alumni in those cities, but it is interesting to note that his itinerary carries him progressively southward.
While in A 1 Richmond's office last month discussing the relative advantages of life in New York and in Hanover I had the good fortune to meet Fred Weed, T. S. C. E. '15, who is now assistant deputy administrator of the NRA in charge of hearings on the code for engineers in the construction industry.
An announcement appeared in a recent copy of The Dartmouth of the engagement of Miss Helen Annette Laycock, daughter of Dean and Mrs. Craven Laycock, to Dick Olmsted, T. S. C. E. '33.
A card was received from Jack Titcomb, T. S. C. E. '33, from Yugoslavia, bearing the inscription "Sretan Bozic," which, according to Jack, means Merry Christmas.
Merit White, T. S. C. E. '3l, writes that he has been awarded an assistantship at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, where he is also studying under von Karman and conducting research under Professor Martel. This sounds like a fulltime job, and indicates that Merit is traveling in fast company.
Orodon Hobbs, T. S. C. E. '3a, has a position in the oil burner division of the Morton Oil Company in Maiden, Mass.
By the time this letter is published the semester examinations will have come and gone, and a wiser if not a sadder student group will face the rigors of the second semester in the Thayer School.
By the same time the alumni gatherings mentioned herein will have been held, and your editor will be sadly disappointed if the personal contacts of these meetings have failed to yield more news than the impotent written requests which have appeared periodically in this column.
